What Are My Top Ten Less Well-Known PR/Marketing Blogs?

I first met Sean Moffitt when he spoke to Ontario government communicators at a speaker series event.

As the president of Agent Wildfire (a leading Canadian word of mouth agency) and founder of The Influencers (a word of mouth community), Sean’s expertise is relevant to everyone engaged in social media.

“Through a growing network of experts around the nation, I’m being called on more and more to assist companies and organizations with the public and stakeholder challenges that threaten their future. That’s what this blog is all about.”

With a combination of cutting-edge topics, excellent journalism and great delivery, Jesse Brown’s CBC podcast Search Engine vaulted to the top of my ‘must listen-to’ podcast list recently. This is the accompanying blog.

For an example of the level of engagement Jesse has with his subscribers, look no further than a recent post calling for questions about potential new copyright legislation.

I met Collin Douma for the first time at a Third Tuesday Toronto event with Giovanni Rodriguez and bumped into him again at the most recent session with Richard Binhammer. Collin has quite the engaging personality, and has a blog to match.

As a former Group Creative Director at MacLaren McCann and now the Chief Strategist at Social Media Group, Collin has experience on both sides of the PR/advertising fence to back up his assertions.

Ryan Anderson’s PR blog benefits greatly from his relaxed, off-the-cuff writing style. As the public relations manager for interactive marketing firm Fuel Industries, he has the experience to go with the style.

“To be honest, Richard was not what I expected from a living, breathing social media case study. Far from a utopian social media zealot, he’s a gruff, opinionated, and extremely intelligent communicator who is surprisingly pragmatic about the role of social media.”

What About You?

So, there you have it. My recommendations for some great reading that you may be missing out on.

Being on this list doesn’t mean these blogs aren’t well-read. In fact, most of these blogs probably have more readers than I do. It matters not – this isn’t a competition. These folks consistently provide relevant, valuable content. You should read them.

If you’re not on this list, don’t be offended – chances are your reader numbers are high enough or I’m so familiar with your material that I don’t consider you a “hidden gem.” Of course, the other possibility is that I screwed up and missed you.

If you think your blog should be on this list, comment here and point me to it! I’d love to check your site out.

Thanks for the great list, Dave (and the kind words about NPSC).
Public sector comms is right out at the end of the long tail, but there is some interesting thinking and writing happening there (take a bow yourself).
I would also put in a plug for two UK bloggers in this space, David Wilcox and Jeremy Gould  both well worth subscribing to.
Cheers, Jason

I fully expected to be listed as one of the less-well-known blogs – and was really happy about it. So imagine my shock to see that I’d been “discounted” in the 2nd paragraph as some variation of a PR blog “a-lister!”

thanks for this…didn’t see this the first time around….as Sally Field said accepting her second Oscar – at first I wondered, but now, now i really know love me …thanks for organizing steakfest the other night

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